William Palo

William Palo, age 84, passed Sunday, November 15, 2020 at home with the comfort of family by his side.

He was born to Alfonso and Mary Palo and raised in Lyndhurst. He was a pitcher for the Lyndhurst High School baseball team and went on to pitch in the semi-pro leagues in the New York Giants baseball organization. A few years into his semi-pro career he received an injury that would end his baseball career. He was inducted into the Lyndhurst High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989.

William continued his education and received his undergraduate degree in Education (1959) and he also received a Master’s Degree in Education Administration from William Paterson University in Wayne.  During his years playing baseball he also took a few classes at the Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He spend his final years working in the Verona School System and retired as Principal at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School.

He was likeable, outgoing and the kind of person who could talk to just about anyone. He loved the outdoors, especially sitting by the water in Florida. He enjoyed movies, game shows and sports on television.  He liked following the professional sports teams: Knicks, Jets, Dodgers and Yankees. When it came to a single player of any professional team he was a huge Tom Brady fan. William also enjoyed golfing in both New Jersey and Florida and especially liked following Tiger Woods achievements.  

William met Mary Ann Kurtz through his brother Angelo and they soon fell in love. They married in Miami Beach, Florida on December 16, 1961 and honeymooned in the Bahamas.  Their marriage was blessed with a daughter Michelle and a son Robert.  William and Mary Ann enjoyed a loving and caring marriage of 43 years before her passing in July of 2004.

William was the loving husband of the late Mary Ann Palo (d.2004); devoted father of Michelle Palo of Wayne and Robert Palo of Boynton Beach, FL; brother of Angelo Palo and his wife Julie of Fort Pierce, FL and the late Jean Henderson; he was the loved uncle of Karen Henderson-Melone, Kevin Palo and the late Kathy Palo.